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There is very little chance of the modern Republican Party putting the national interest above their own partisan interests.
Mehdi Hasan
Party
National
Own
Above
Putting
Partisan
Very
National Interest
Modern
Interest
Republican
Republican Party
Little
Interests
Chance
We have to find a way to try and reconcile our beliefs - and Islam, like Judaism and Christianity, has traditionally seen homosexuality as a sin - with the reality of life in modern, pluralistic, secular societies in which gay people cannot be wished away or banished from sight.
Mehdi Hasan
Life
Gay
Reality
People
Try
Secular
Seen
Islam
Christianity
Our
Way
Sight
Find
Reconcile
Pluralistic
Sin
Wished
Like
Judaism
Modern
Banished
Cannot
Which
Beliefs
Away
Societies
Homosexuality
There are two Tory parties: the trendy, socially liberal Notting Hill set which dominates at the national level, and the unreconstructed, reactionary, and often bigoted members of Conservative associations at the local level. The latter have yet to reconcile themselves to the reality of modern, multiracial Britain.
Mehdi Hasan
Reality
Conservative
National
Liberal
Local
Local Level
Trendy
Latter
Members
Reconcile
Tory
Hill
Parties
Reactionary
Modern
Often
Which
Bigoted
Themselves
Level
Socially
Britain
Two
Set
Associations
I was at university and I was studying modern drama and studying English, and I just was like, 'I don't wanna be in this place. I wanna be acting.'
Melanie Lynskey
Drama
Studying
Like
Modern
Just
Wanna
Place
Acting
English
University
I'm obsessed with Michael Fassbender. He's unbelievable. I think he's a modern day Brando. Every movie that he's done in the past couple years, I just died for him. He's extremely fascinating.
Melissa Benoist
Day
Past
Every
Think
Extremely
Unbelievable
He
Obsessed
Couple
Couple Years
Him
Years
Past Couple
Michael
Brando
Died
Modern
Done
Just
Movie
In The Past
Modern-Day
Fascinating
I love telling the experience of a black male in America, but modern, not always having to go back to a period piece to remind people where we come from. It's more a modern sense of where we are today and where we want to go in the future. So I try to choose projects somewhere around that space.
Michael B. Jordan
Love
Today
Future
Experience
People
Try
Space
Black
Somewhere
Sense
Back
Projects
Telling
Having
More
Remind
Come
Piece
Period
Around
Always
Go
Male
America
Modern
Where
Want
Choose
Although Darwin was able to persuade much of the world that a modern eye could be produced gradually from a much simpler structure, he did not even attempt to explain how the simple light sensitive spot that was his starting point actually worked.
Michael Behe
World
Simple
Light
Eye
Able
Darwin
Structure
Point
Could
Simpler
Attempt
He
Although
Spot
How
His
Did
Gradually
Modern
Sensitive
Explain
Worked
Much
Produced
Persuade
Even
Actually
Starting
Starting Point
In a single lifetime, roughly from 1865 to 1930, one finds the pioneering and patterning works of modern fantasy, science fiction, children's literature and detective fiction, of modern adventure, mystery and romance.
Michael Dirda
Science
Single
Finds
Detective
Mystery
Lifetime
Adventure
Science Fiction
Pioneering
Modern
Romance
Children
Fiction
Literature
Fantasy
Works
Roughly
When you do what I do, there are a lot of institutions that give you awards. I've gotten maybe 20 medals. They're glorious, and there's a spirit behind them. But sometimes they give you this dreadful modern glass thing. I wish everyone could afford a loving cup.
Michael Graves
You
Sometimes
Wish
Glorious
Everyone
Dreadful
Spirit
Give
Could
Glass
Institutions
Gotten
Lot
Cup
Afford
Modern
Behind
Maybe
Loving
Them
Medals
Awards
Thing
What's distinctively shocking about Machiavelli is that he didn't care. He believed not only that politicians must do evil in the name of the public good, but also that they shouldn't worry about it. He was unconcerned, in other words, with what modern thinkers call 'the problem of dirty hands.'
Michael Ignatieff
Good
Problem
Words
Care
Evil
Politicians
Other
Worry
Machiavelli
Must
About
Only
Dirty
Unconcerned
He
Name
Also
Call
Shocking
Hands
Modern
In Other Words
Public
Public Good
Believed
Thinkers
Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror.
Michael Johns
History
November
Tyranny
State
Rule
Seventy
Totalitarian
Totalitarian State
Simpler
Sophisticated
Most
Terror
Years
Years Ago
Modern
Transforming
Forms
Lenin
Created
Apparatus
What modern humans need help with is escaping from the despair of politics, commerce and media, escaping from the drabness and oppressiveness of worldly values and seeing through suburban mentality and normal community standards so that they can find some much-needed relief for their wilting souls.
Michael Leunig
Politics
Values
Community
Despair
Worldly
Relief
Find
Seeing
Some
Mentality
Through
Souls
Normal
Commerce
Escaping
Modern
Suburban
Help
Standards
Media
Humans
Need
In the modern world, it may be that a living father can only be half a father to a boy - the dead father is the other vital half: the half that grows the boy up once and for all.
Michael Leunig
World
Father
Half
Living
Other
Once
Vital
Only
Dead
Boy
Up
Modern
May
Modern World
Grows
Modern man is probably a more humiliated and depressed creature than he dares to know.
Michael Leunig
Man
Humiliated
Dares
More
He
Know
Than
Modern
Modern Man
Depressed
Creature
Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage.
Michael Leunig
Silence
Man
Clever
Moral
He
Advantage
Empty
Modern
Modern Man
Conscience
Thinks
From Brighton to Bradford, from Suffolk to Somerset, I have explored some remarkable buildings and structures that, in different ways, have helped to shed light on the way modern Britain has developed.
Michael Portillo
Light
Way
Ways
Some
Structures
Remarkable
Developed
Shed
Buildings
Modern
Different
Explored
Helped
Different Ways
Brighton
Britain
A particular modern problem is that megalomania, especially when it involves real estate development, is the disturbance of many faceless men. And a faceless man is a difficult enemy.
Michael Wolff
Man
Problem
Enemy
Real Estate
Men
Difficult
Disturbance
Faceless
Development
Particular
Involves
Real
Modern
Estate
Many
The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular.
Michael York
Great
You
Humor
Made
Monty
About
Classics
Great Thing
Up
Get
Modern
Popular
Incline
Thing
Plays
University
Modern politicians like Cameron dream of exerting paternal influence without being seen as paternalistic, of fostering moral behaviour without being considered moralistic.
Michel Faber
Seen
Politicians
Considered
Dream
Moral
Moralistic
Like
Without
Exerting
Cameron
Paternal
Modern
Behaviour
Being
Influence
Fostering
I watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great like John Ford and Fritz Lang, Tod Browning, and also some very modern directors like The Coen Brothers. The directors take the freedom within their own movies to be melodramatic or funny when they chose to be. They do whatever they want and they don't care about the genre.
Michel Hazanavicius
Funny
Great
Freedom
Care
Whatever
Own
John
Silent
Some
Brothers
John Ford
About
Directors
Absolutely
Take
Like
Also
Genre
Ford
Within
Were
Lot
Very
Fritz
Modern
Want
Movies
Who
Chose
Coen
Watched
'Millennials' has become a kind of modern swearword, a slur directed at people in their early 20s.
Michelle Dean
People
Become
Kind
Directed
Modern
Millennials
Early
Early 20s
When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it.
Michelle Dockery
School
Three
Singing
Stage
Week
Ballet
Tap
Times
Child
Modern
Loved
Acting
Evenings
In a sense, I think the WWE Universe has become one of the greatest characters of the modern era.
Mick Foley
Become
Sense
Think
Universe
Characters
WWE
Greatest
Era
Modern
Modern Era
I'd photographed musicians before but this was different. Syd was very charismatic, and he had the aura of a poete maudit, which made him the perfect subject for me - I realised that rock n' rollers were the modern equivalent of all the poets I was so enamoured with.
Mick Rock
Me
Musicians
Made
Before
Photographed
Charismatic
Poets
Perfect
Had
He
Him
Rock
Enamoured
Equivalent
Were
Subject
Aura
Very
Modern
Different
Realised
Which
For many women, going back to work a few months after having a baby is overwhelming and unmanageable. As strange as it may seem, things get even more difficult for a working mom after the second and third baby arrive. By that time, the romance of being a modern 'superwoman' wears off and reality sets in.
Mika Brzezinski
Work
Time
Mom
Strange
Women
Reality
Overwhelming
Few
Difficult
Sets
Baby
Back
Months
Wears
Seem
Having
More
Having A Baby
Arrive
Off
Get
Modern
Going
May
Romance
Being
After
Working
Many
Even
Things
Second
Third
The Founding Fathers: A bunch of old white guys who are making it nearly impossible for modern government to pick our doctors, teach our children, correct our diets, and save our money.
Mike Gallagher
Government
Money
Impossible
Old
Doctors
White
Fathers
Our
Correct
Guys
Pick
Making
Bunch
Modern
Diets
Children
Teach
Who
Founding
Nearly
Founding Fathers
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